Sökning: "Mattias Gardell"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden Mattias Gardell.
1. Countdown to Armageddon : minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the latter days
Sammanfattning : Being both black and Islamic, the main subject of this study represents a combined opposition to "Americanity", i.e., the civil religion of the United States. LÄS MER
2. Theologies Speak of Justice : A Study of Islamic and Christian Social Ethics
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate how religious ethics, while retaining its identity, can contribute to political debate and to the understanding of justice. The inquiry addresses these issues by focusing on theological perspectives which challenge the solutions offered to these questions by the liberal paradigm. LÄS MER
3. Med tre röster och tusende bilder. Om den samiska trumman
Sammanfattning : The ceremonial drum, with its drumhead filled with pictures and tightened over an oval or oviformed wooden frame or bowl, was the most important tool of the noaidi, the Sami shaman. By outsiders however, were they missionaries during the 17th century or researchers during 20th, the Sami drum has often been demonised as ‘devilish’ or belitted as ‘primitive’, and labelled ‘troll-drum’. LÄS MER
4. Tradition as Resource : Transnational Somali Women Traders Facing the Realities of Civil War
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is an analysis of interviews with and observations among transnational Somali women traders, located in Somaliland (northwest Somalia) and Dubai. Since the outbreak of the Somali civil war an increasing number of women have become the sole providers of their families. LÄS MER
5. The Eloquent Blood : The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism
Sammanfattning : The study analyses the changing construction of femininities and feminine sexuality in interpretations of the goddess Babalon, a central deity in Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) esoteric religion Thelema. Femininity has occupied a problematic position in feminist theory, frequently associated with lack, artifice, and restriction. LÄS MER